Friday, May 29, 2009

Assignment 3

Assignment Question:

Create a blog on the topic of handphones and write about them as creatively as you can.

You must perform research and include the following information about handphones into your blog:
  • Historical development of handphones
  • Technological development of handphones
  • How it works (handphone companies, service providers)
  • Category of handphones and their functions
  • Impact on the way business transactions are carried out
  • Impact on the culture of the community
  • Benefits and disadvantages
  • Future directions
Remember to give credit to your sources (meaning you have to reference your work).

Incorporate as many multimedia elements as you can into your blog. But do remember this article by Jakob Nielsen.

You will be marked based on:
  • Your creativity in addressing this topic on your blog
  • The depth of your research on this topic
  • The extensive and appropriate use of hyperlinks to explain the given topic
  • Inclusion of references in your work
  • Inclusion of appropriate multimedia elements
Assignment Specifications:
  • Work individually (publish the address of your blog in the Comments section of this blog post)
  • Weightage: 30%
  • Duration: 2 weeks

Friday, May 8, 2009

Introduction to Blogging

You can obtain some basic information about what blogs are from these YouTube videos below:





You can also read more about blogs at this HowStuffWorks article - How Blog Works